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Injury News

The shocker of the day is that Nasri is available and has been in full training when he was just supposed to be out for two more weeks, at least. The early return of Nasri (and Ramsey the other day) makes me wonder if some of these “knocks” that the players are suffering aren’t just [...]

Wenger Confirms Smalling Bid

I told you that it looked like Wenger was in for Smalling (smug grin).

Despite the fact that it was reported on Goal.com when I watched Wenger’s press conference last week, he looked like a man who had something up his sleeve regarding reports that Arsenal had made a move for Chris Smalling. Sporting a Cheshire grin, [...]

Where there’s smoke, there’s Smalling?

In today’s press conference, Arsene Wenger was asked if there was any interest in Fulham’s 6’4″ twenty year old central defender Chris Smalling. The dot com is officially reporting that there’s “no truth in the rumor at the moment.” And sure enough he did say that, but the full quote is more revealing:

Journo: You have one [...]